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Worry vs Craze - What's the difference?

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Worry is a related term of craze.


As verbs the difference between worry and craze

is that worry is to seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf while craze is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

As nouns the difference between worry and craze

is that worry is a strong feeling of anxiety while craze is craziness; insanity.

worry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
    • Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.
  • To harass; to irritate or distress.
    • The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.
  • Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
    • Your tone of voice worries me.
  • To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
    • Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.
  • (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
  • To cause concern or anxiety.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.}}

    Synonyms

    * (trouble mentally) fret

    Noun

    (worries)
  • A strong feeling of anxiety.
  • :
  • An instance or cause of such a feeling.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * worried * worrisome

    craze

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Craziness; insanity.
  • A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

    • Verb

    (craz)
  • To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • * Milton
    • Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
  • To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • * Tillotson
    • any man that is crazed and out of his wits
  • * Shakespeare
    • Grief hath crazed my wits.
  • To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • * Keats
    • She would weep and he would craze .
  • (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • * Milton
    • God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.
  • (intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.